{"id":1827,"date":"2016-06-17T22:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T22:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2016-06-17T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T22:40:33","slug":"family-tries-to-leave-mom-wants-to-stay-at-pechanga-wins-million-dollar-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/family-tries-to-leave-mom-wants-to-stay-at-pechanga-wins-million-dollar-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Tries to Leave, Mom Wants to Stay at Pechanga &#038; Wins Million-Dollar Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1828\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1828 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mil-Dollar-Slot-Win-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Mil Dollar Slot Win\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mil-Dollar-Slot-Win-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mil-Dollar-Slot-Win-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mil-Dollar-Slot-Win-816x693.jpg 816w, https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mil-Dollar-Slot-Win-900x765.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winning Gold Series $1 machine at Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>TEMECULA<\/strong>, Calif. \u2013 (June 12, 2016) \u2013 A lucky Los Angeles lady is now $1,058,333.33 richer thanks to a bit of stubbornness during a recent trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pechanga.com\">Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino<\/a>. The winner, wishing to remain unidentified, scored the huge progressive jackpot at 8:00p.m. Sunday, June 12 on a $1.00 Golden Pagodas Gold Series slot machine by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketgaming.com\">Rocket Gaming Systems<\/a>. She said she had $80 in the machine and had played for about 30 minutes before striking the windfall. Her son and his fianc\u00e9 had wanted to leave the resort\/casino some time earlier, though mom opted to keep playing. She found her diligence rewarded as the 12th person to hit more than $1 million at Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1829\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1829 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1887-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1887\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1887-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1887-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1887-816x612.jpg 816w, https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1887-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another look at the $1 million winning machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The winner told casino staff she initially thought she won $10,000 as she saw the \u201cGold Series\u201d symbols on the slot reels line up across the center line. She quickly realized she won the wide area progressive jackpot for $1,058,333.33, but admitted, \u201cit took about an hour for this to really hit me.\u201d When asked what she may do with her winnings, the guest replied, \u201cI\u2019ll come to Pechanga some more, and maybe take my family on a vacation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time our guests win big jackpots, we\u2019re thrilled for them,\u201d said Alex Rodriguez, Vice President of Slot Operations at Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino. \u201cSunday\u2019s winner told us Pechanga is her favorite place, and with a great win like this, the good news is bound to spread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to announce our 36th winner of the Gold Series Million Dollar Progressive since 2009,\u201d said Darren White, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Rocket Gaming Systems. \u201cWe appreciate the enthusiastic Gold Series players at Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino, a tremendously supportive partner on our Gold Series Network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night\u2019s million dollar jackpot marks the 12th more-than-one-million-dollar win at Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino. Five of these jackpots have been won on Gold Series slots by Rocket Gaming Systems, the most wins on this game in the country according to slot officials. The previous million dollar win, also on a Gold Series slot machine, at Pechanga happened March 2, 2015 and was won by a retired iron worker from Perris, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEMECULA, Calif. \u2013 (June 12, 2016) \u2013 A lucky Los Angeles lady is now $1,058,333.33 richer thanks to a bit of stubbornness during a recent trip to Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino. The winner, wishing to remain unidentified, scored the huge progressive jackpot at 8:00p.m. Sunday, June 12 on a $1.00 Golden Pagodas Gold Series slot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,520,1,519],"tags":[31,573,643,66,114,440,115,119,124,464,81,113],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-gaming","category-pechanga-resort-casino","category-resort","tag-casino","tag-casino-food","tag-casino-jackpot","tag-fun","tag-jackpot","tag-jenner","tag-money","tag-pechanga-casino","tag-temecula-casino","tag-temecula-resort","tag-win","tag-winner"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Family Tries to Leave, Mom Wants to Stay at Pechanga &amp; Wins Million-Dollar Jackpot - Newsroom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pechanga.com\/newsroom\/family-tries-to-leave-mom-wants-to-stay-at-pechanga-wins-million-dollar-jackpot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Family Tries to Leave, Mom Wants to Stay at Pechanga &amp; Wins Million-Dollar Jackpot - Newsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TEMECULA, Calif. \u2013 (June 12, 2016) \u2013 A lucky Los Angeles lady is now $1,058,333.33 richer thanks to a bit of stubbornness during a recent trip to Pechanga Resort &amp; Casino. 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